Chapter Summaries

Fu Ze abducted Xiaoqiu from the Market District, and Wu Yunsu discovered he was missing after the Tracking Gu lost contact. Wu Yunsu suspected Qingxuan and asked Lecturer Hong to help recover Xiaoqiu.

• Qingxuan told Fu Ze to make their move, and Fu Ze promised to handle it discreetly.
• Xiaoqiu returned to the demon stall and sorted through a delivery while Wu Yunsu tracked his location with a Tracking Gu.
• After Xiaoqiu vanished, Wu Yunsu found his bloodstained Communication Jade Talisman and learned the Tracking Gu could no longer sense him.
• The Market District manager confirmed Xiaoqiu was alive but refused to get involved in the struggles behind the scenes.
• Wu Yunsu returned to Luo Po and asked Lecturer Hong to bring Xiaoqiu back, saying he suspected Qingxuan had abducted him.

Wu Yunsu suspected Qingxuan had taken Xiaoqiu and, finding the Chan Sect too slow to act, set out to pursue his own lead. Meanwhile, Fu Ze brought Xiaoqiu to the Wasteland and prepared to investigate his family secret, while Wu Yunsu planted Gu Worms on Mingxin; the chapter ended with Mingxin growing jealous of the praise Wu Yunsu received.

• Wu Yunsu questioned Lecturer Hong about Qingxuan’s account of Long’s disappearance, then left determined to find Xiaoqiu himself.
• Fu Ze carried Xiaoqiu to the Wasteland and followed Qingxuan’s instructions to cripple Xiaoqiu and examine his root bones.
• Xiaoqiu woke and learned that Fu Ze had stolen his Sumeru Ring and Storage Bag and had abducted him to verify a family secret.
• Wu Yunsu used Gu Worms to attack cultivators and strengthen his worms, then went to Luopo Chan Sect to find Mingxin.
• Wu Yunsu pretended to collapse into Mingxin’s arms and secretly placed Gu Worms in his robes.
• Mingxin watched the senior brothers praise Wu Yunsu’s promise and felt resentful.

Wu Yunsu gathered cultivators to search for Xiaoqiu after learning Qingxuan had sent him to the Wasteland, and they resorted to a forbidden technique when their divinations failed. As Jingguan began the technique, Wu Yunsu’s Yaomo blood surged and he began turning demonic.

• Wu Yunsu learned from Qingxuan that Fu Ze had taken Xiaoqiu to the Wasteland, but resisted planting a Gu in Qingxuan and sought help instead.
• Zhiguan arrived and failed to divine Xiaoqiu’s location, while Wu Yunsu identified Qingxuan as the likely abductor.
• Suoluo and Qiye admitted they had not made a formation to locate jade talismans, and more cultivators arrived to join the search.
• Jingguan and Wuyou proposed using their sects’ forbidden techniques, and Jingguan began one with Xiaoqiu’s jade talisman as a vessel.
• The forbidden incantation triggered Wu Yunsu’s Yaomo blood, and Zhiguan realized he was about to turn demonic.

Fu Ze shattered Xiaoqiu’s dantian and prepared to remove his root bone, but Xiaoqiu secretly stole Fu Ze’s Sumeru Ring. Meanwhile, Wu Yunsu and his companions found the bloodied cave and learned Xiaoqiu was still alive, while Duyu and Xiao Jingyu carried the badly injured Xiaoqiu away to save him.

• Wuyou warned Wu Yunsu that consuming cultivators’ flesh and blood endangered his cultivation, then Jingguan used a forbidden technique to reveal Xiaoqiu’s location.
• Wu Yunsu and his companions followed the tracking bead to a hidden cave, where they found Xiaoqiu’s blood and Sumeru Ring but no sign of him.
• The tracking bead flashed again, and Wuyou realized Xiaoqiu was still alive.
• Fu Ze shattered Xiaoqiu’s dantian and forced him to swallow a pill before preparing to dig out his root bone.
• Xiaoqiu secretly took Fu Ze’s Sumeru Ring, while Duyu and Xiao Jingyu carried him away and discovered his dantian was shattered and his root bone missing.

Xiaoqiu was rescued by Duyu after Fu Ze shattered his dantian and removed his root bones, while Wu Yunsu's group believed Xiaoqiu had died. Qingxuan subdued Mingxin after Mingxin attacked him, and Chi Yu agreed to seek a Buddhist bead from an Azure Luan in exchange for Xie Xiyi's help with a request.

• Fu Ze shattered Xiaoqiu's dantian and began digging out his root bones, but Duyu answered Xiaoqiu's call and drove Fu Ze away after severely injuring him.
• Duyu fed Xiaoqiu his heart's blood and brought him to the Yu Dynasty's Imperial Palace, where he and Xiao Jingyu decided to hide and protect him.
• Wu Yunsu's tracking bead went dark, and Wuyou concluded that Xiaoqiu was probably dead; Wu Yunsu then sent an order through the Mother Gu and Child Gu.
• Mingxin attacked Qingxuan in Luo Po, accusing him of excluding him and murdering a fellow disciple, but Qingxuan knocked him unconscious before he could finish.
• Xie Xiyi and Chi Yu found the Azure Luan's nest, and Chi Yu agreed to try to obtain the Buddhist bead in return for Xie Xiyi granting him a favor.

Chi Yu obtained the Buddhist Sect's Righteous Object from the Azure Luan by playing music, then urged Xie Xiyi to care for himself before they reached the Tiangang Secret Realm's exit. Xie Xiyi warned that leaving could kill Chi Yu, but Chi Yu chose to risk it and return to his own Senior Brother Xuanji and Xiaoqiu.

• Chi Yu played music in the Azure Luan's gorge until the Azure Luan called him over and gave him the Buddhist Sect's Righteous Object.
• Chi Yu told Xie Xiyi to care for himself, but Xie Xiyi said he felt no pain removing his Buddha Bones and eyeballs and asked Chi Yu to choose another reward.
• Xie Xiyi told Chi Yu the Tiangang Secret Realm's exit would open that night, and Chi Yu refused to ask for anything else before they headed for it together.
• Chi Yu joked with a Luopo Chan Sect disciple about receiving private lessons before reaching the exit with Xie Xiyi.
• Xie Xiyi warned Chi Yu that there was only a slight chance he would return to his original world and that he might die instead.
• Chi Yu said he would risk everything to return to his Senior Brother Xuanji and Xiaoqiu, then prepared to leave the secret realm.

After leaving seclusion, Xie Xiyi hurried to the Luopo Chan Sect intending to confess his feelings to Chi Yu, but learned that Chi Yu and others had disappeared and that Chi Yu was presumed dead. He flew to Chi Yu’s dormitory and called for him, finding the cottage empty.

• Xie Xiyi left the Infinite Secret Realm after refining twenty-six segments of Buddha Bone, and Venerable Shangshan let him go despite wanting to guide him toward becoming Buddha-son.
• Xie Xiyi hurried toward the Luopo Chan Sect, convinced he should tell Chi Yu about his feelings and persist until Chi Yu accepted him.
• At the sect, a Chan disciple told Xie Xiyi that Xiaoqiu and Lianchi were missing and that Chi Yu had been swept into a rift in the Tiangang Secret Realm and was likely dead.
• Xie Xiyi ignored the sect’s ban on flying with qi and rushed to Chi Yu’s dormitory, where memories of Chi Yu’s invitation to dinner returned to him.
• Xie Xiyi stood outside the cottage and quietly called Chi Yu’s name.

Xie Xiyi attacked Qingxuan after concluding he was responsible for Long Junior Brother’s disappearance and Xiaoqiu’s abduction, crippling him and nearly killing him despite the Chan Sect disciples’ objections. The Anuttara Buddhist Sect sentenced Xie Xiyi to Avīci Hell, and monks moved to subdue him.

• Xie Xiyi found the dormitory empty and saw malicious thoughts in the threads surrounding Qingxuan, then accused him of causing Long Junior Brother and Xiaoqiu’s disappearance.
• Xie Xiyi drew his sword, defeated Qingxuan, shattered his dantian, and severed the meridians in his wrists.
• Jingguan and other Dao Di Chan Abode disciples intervened, but Xie Xiyi used the Anuttara Buddhist Sect’s Cessation Dharma Gate to attack the crowd.
• Lecturer Hong restrained Xie Xiyi and told him that an investigation found Long Junior Brother had been swallowed by a secret-realm rift and Xiaoqiu had been abducted by an unorthodox cultivator, with no evidence implicating Qingxuan.
• Xie Xiyi drove his sword through Qingxuan’s chest and refused to stop, even after Lecturer Hong warned that he would lose his chance to become Buddha-son.
• Monks announced Venerable Shangshan’s decree sentencing Xie Xiyi to Avīci Hell, then ordered the others to help subdue him.

After Xuanji was captured for attacking Qingxuan, the monks secretly let him escape, while Qingxuan planned to leave Luo Po and eliminate the boy connected to Xuanji. Wu Yunsu learned what had happened and blamed his own weakness for Xuanji’s predicament.

• Monks bound Xie Xiyi with Carved Artifacts and took him away, while Lecturer Hong removed some of his sword intent from Qingxuan.
• Qingxuan pretended to forgive Mingxin and ordered him to provoke the adolescent boy who had once been a demon, intending to eliminate him.
• Wuyou announced that Xuanji had escaped, and Qingxuan decided to leave Luo Po at once.
• Qingxuan and Mingxin departed Luo Po, while Qingxuan realized Xuanji’s lingering sword intent would continue damaging him.
• Wu Yunsu learned through the Child Gu that Xuanji had escaped and Qingxuan had been crippled, then regretted failing to kill Qingxuan earlier.

After learning that Xiaoqiu and Chi Yu had died, Xie Xiyi suppressed his Demonic Heart and set out to hunt Qingxuan, driven by grief and rage. Qingxuan and Mingxin fled toward Myriad Firmament Continent, preparing for Xuanji’s pursuit, but their Flying Artifact entered a Wind Spirit Eye.

• Wu Yunsu decided to rely on himself to avenge Xiaoqiu because Mingxin could not attack Qingxuan.
• Xie Xiyi grieved over Xiaoqiu and Chi Yu’s deaths, nearly lost control to his Demonic Heart, and suppressed it with his Buddha Bone.
• Xie Xiyi sealed away his tears and continued hunting Qingxuan, while the Love Poison’s corruption worsened.
• Qingxuan warned Mingxin that Xuanji might pursue them and asked for his Protective Artifact, which Mingxin handed over.
• Qingxuan contacted Fu Ze and planned to use Xuanji as a path into an Immortal Sect on Myriad Firmament Continent.
• Their Flying Artifact entered a Wind Spirit Eye, and Mingxin took control of it as the storm jolted the craft.

Xie Xiyi cursed Qingxuan with an Attack Imprint Forbidden Curse that would torment him and consume the cultivation of any body he possessed for five hundred years. After Xie Xiyi left, Fu Ze and two cultivators from the Mo Family found Qingxuan and learned that he had been cursed.

• Xie Xiyi activated the Forbidden Curse sealed in a Top-Grade Spirit Stone and told Qingxuan he would claim his life in five hundred years.
• Xie Xiyi left Qingxuan alive, enduring agony, and admitted that Forbidden Techniques were his last hope of bringing back his junior brother, Chi Yu, and Xiaoqiu.
• Fu Ze arrived with two Mo Family cultivators and hesitated outside the cave when he heard Qingxuan groaning.
• The group found Qingxuan bound to a stone bed, and Fu Ze released him from the Immortal-Binding Rope.
• A Mahayana Stage cultivator examined Qingxuan and identified the curse as a rare offensive Forbidden Curse with exceptionally complete runes.

Xie Xiyi tried to prepare a forbidden time curse so he could bring Chi Yu and Xiaoqiu back, but he could not complete it and resolved to keep trying. Weeks later, Qingxuan learned that Xuanji had fought a Mo Family senior to a draw and had been spotted giving alms on Wangxian Continent.

• A Mahayana Stage cultivator questioned Qingxuan about Xuanji’s forbidden curse and promised the Mo Family would try to suppress it.
• Xie Xiyi explained the terrible price of forbidden curses and chose to offer his demonic heart to power a time curse instead of using his clan’s divine blood.
• Xie Xiyi repeatedly failed to write the time curse, steadied himself with the Buddhist Sect’s righteous object, and vowed to bring Chi Yu back.
• Several dozen days later, Fu Ze told Qingxuan that Xuanji had fought a Mo Family Spirit Severing Stage senior to a draw.
• Qingxuan warned Fu Ze that Xuanji knew forbidden curses, then learned the clash had taken place while Xuanji was giving alms on Wangxian Continent.

Qingxuan ordered Fu Ze to kill the beggar children Xie Xiyi had taught, fearing Dharma Giving would strengthen him, but Xie Xiyi retaliated and continued filling the Buddhist Sect's Righteous Object while evading his pursuers. After the Mo Family surrounded him in a forest, Xie Xiyi faced their demand to surrender with nowhere left to retreat.

• Qingxuan told Fu Ze to kill the beggar children and promised Mingxin that he would make him master of a future Immortal Sect.
• Xie Xiyi discovered the beggar children had been attacked, sheltered the survivors, then killed the Spirit Severing Stage cultivator responsible before withdrawing from a Mahayana Stage opponent.
• Xie Xiyi traveled in hiding for two months, practicing Dharma Giving to fill his prayer bead and continuing to practice the Time Runes.
• A Tribulation Transcendence ancestor and dozens of cultivators confronted Xie Xiyi and demanded he join the Mo Family; he refused and fought, then fled when the ancestor prepared to attack personally.
• After a hunt lasting over a month, the Mo Family surrounded Xie Xiyi in a forest and ordered him to surrender alive.

Xie Xiyi escaped his pursuers by diving into the Nine Nether Dark River, intending to use its power to write the Time Forbidden Curse and return to the past to save Chi Yu and Xiaoqiu. After a year of failed attempts left him near death, his bloodline alerted him that something had happened, and he lost control.

• Xie Xiyi lured the cultivators to the Nine Nether Dark River, then jumped into it as the Tribulation Transcendence patriarch tried to seize him.
• Xie Xiyi rescued a snow-white fox Yaoshou from the river and sent it safely back through the fissure.
• Xie Xiyi used the Buddhist Sect's Righteous Object and the river's Netherworld aura to attempt the Time Forbidden Curse, hoping to return to the past and save Chi Yu and Xiaoqiu.
• Xie Xiyi spent a year failing to write the curse as the Netherworld Death Qi destroyed his cultivation and damaged his body.
• Xie Xiyi's bloodline revealed that something had happened to the Xie Clan, and his eyes turned black as he lost his remaining reason.

Chi Yu woke to find that the world had changed and learned that Senior Brother Xuanji and Xiaoqiu were gone. After discovering his cultivation had risen to the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment, he joined a group of Immortal Sect cultivators and set out with his grief hidden behind his familiar smile.

• Chi Yu woke when the nascent soul spirit inside a blood-red soul pearl called to him and hurriedly searched the secret realm for news of Senior Brother Xuanji and Xiaoqiu.
• Ling Hezhou noticed Chi Yu had suddenly reached the sixth layer of Foundation Establishment.
• Chi Yu learned he was in the Heavenly Lake Secret Realm on Wangxian Continent, and that the Anuttara Buddhist Sect had no Buddha-son; a candidate had betrayed it five hundred years earlier.
• A lustrous spinal bone fell from Chi Yu, and he picked it up in tears while thinking of Senior Brother Xuanji and Xiaoqiu.
• Chi Yu quickly composed himself and asked a group of Immortal Sect cultivators if he could join them, then reassured Ling Hezhou that he was fine.
• Ling Tian noticed something was wrong with Chi Yu's eyes, cultivation, and spiritual radiance.

Chi Yu learned that Qingxuan had likely caused Xie Xiyi’s transformation and the Xie Clan’s destruction, then set out to guide someone to the other shore. After leaving the Heavenly Lake Secret Realm, he discovered that Qingxuan was now the Immortal Alliance’s Deputy Alliance Leader, confirming his suspicions and leaving him to confront the truth behind the Xie Clan’s fate.

• Chi Yu realized that Xie Xiyi was still his Senior Brother Xuanji and blamed himself for his brother’s turn to forbidden techniques after suspecting Qingxuan had engineered the ambush.
• Chi Yu led a team through the Heavenly Lake Secret Realm, found treasures, defeated a powerful Yaoshou, and divided the spoils fairly without losing anyone.
• Chi Yu left the secret realm, declined his followers’ invitations, and told Ling Hezhou he was going to guide someone to the other shore.
• An Immortal Alliance cultivator gave Chi Yu a free month’s landing qualification because he was from the Zizai Continent Chan Sect.
• Chi Yu learned that Deputy Alliance Leader Qingxuan had studied in Zizai Continent five hundred years earlier under the Dharma name Qingxuan, and connected him to Thousand Mountains Brew and the Xie Clan’s destruction.

Chi Yu joined the Immortal Alliance, intending to turn its members against Qingxuan and Mingxin while seeking a way to save Senior Brother Xuanji. When Xie Xiyi found him, Chi Yu’s familiar words stirred an unexpected joy in the masked cultivator, though Xie Xiyi still denied wanting to hear them.

• Chi Yu joined the Immortal Alliance and learned that the Ghost-Masked Cultivator had killed more than fifty Nascent Soul cultivators and that Wu Yunsu had defected.
• Chi Yu told Ling Hezhou that he planned to turn the Immortal Alliance against its leaders, and he revealed the unrefined Buddha Bone he believed might help Senior Brother Xuanji.
• Xie Xiyi appeared in Chi Yu’s quarters and declared that Chi Yu would become his Sword-Holding Sword Slave.
• Chi Yu called Xie Xiyi “Senior Brother Xuanji,” and Xie Xiyi noticed Chi Yu’s golden eyes and told him not to say those words.
• Chi Yu sensed that his words had stirred deep joy within Xie Xiyi, despite Xie Xiyi’s lack of memories.

Xie Xiyi spared a fleeing cultivator after Phantom Lightning urged him to stop, but Chi Yu’s call of “Senior Brother Xuanji” left him feeling strangely empty. Chi Yu realized he had returned five hundred years into the past and reunited with Wu Yunsu, who revealed that Qingxuan and Taixuzi had abducted Xiaoqiu.

• Xie Xiyi let a Golden Core cultivator go after Phantom Lightning objected to his killing him, then found himself haunted by Chi Yu calling him Senior Brother Xuanji.
• Chi Yu told Ling Hezhou that Xie Xiyi was his former Senior Brother Xuanji, a Future Buddha-son who had betrayed his sect.
• Chi Yu concluded that the Heavenly Lake Secret Realm rift had taken him five hundred years into the past and wondered whether the Heavenly Dao had caused his return.
• Wu Yunsu appeared as a black snake and asked why Chi Yu wanted to join the Immortal Alliance.
• Chi Yu embraced Wu Yunsu, who apologized for failing to protect Xiaoqiu and said Qingxuan and Taixuzi had abducted him.

Wu Yunsu reunited with Chi Yu after five hundred years and explained how Great Xia fell and how he secretly rescued members of the Xie Clan. He left content to remain Chi Yu’s son and stay by his side.

• Wu Yunsu reassured Chi Yu that he would not pursue him as a Dao Companion unless Chi Yu wanted that relationship.
• Wu Yunsu explained that Qingxuan had allied with the major Cultivation Families of Myriad Firmament Continent to undermine and destroy Great Xia, then exploit the captured Xie Clan.
• Wu Yunsu revealed that he had secretly exchanged and rescued several Xie family members while serving Qingxuan and Taixuzi.
• Chi Yu hugged Wu Yunsu and told him he loved him, while Wu Yunsu asked whether Chi Yu loved him more than Xuanji.
• Chi Yu ranked Xiaoqiu second and Wu Yunsu third among those he loved, and Wu Yunsu accepted his place contentedly.

Chi Yu learned that Qingxuan had bound Wu Yunsu with a contract and that the Immortal Alliance strengthened itself using the Xie Clan’s flesh and bones. He decided he needed to reconsider how to oppose Qingxuan and the Alliance, then left in his Luopo Chan Sect robe without the Alliance token.

• Chi Yu learned that Qingxuan had anticipated Wu Yunsu’s actions and prohibited him from bringing Gu into the Immortal Alliance.
• Wu Yunsu explained that the Immortal Alliance made undiluted Thousand Mountains Brew from Xie Clan blood and flesh and Jade Marrow from their bones.
• Ling Hezhou and Ling Tian told Chi Yu about the Tianyan Sect’s division over joining the Alliance, and Chi Yu revealed that he was their martial uncle and Senior Brother Zhiguan’s senior brother.
• Wu Yunsu revealed that Senior Brother Zhiguan had secretly helped him rescue Xuanji’s relatives and had been badly wounded by cultivators from the Myriad Firmament Continent.
• After Wu Yunsu left, Chi Yu reconsidered his plan to seize the Immortal Alliance, changed into his Luopo Chan Sect robe, left the Alliance token behind, and quietly departed.